Guild Wars 2

Title. It’s just so frustratingly inconsistent. A.net doesn’t seem to want to fix it. Has anybody sorted out what conditions must be met for the first four crippling hits of this ability in order for them to trigger? I think it might have to do with elevation, but I’m not sure. Sometimes I think it’ll hit, but it doesn’t, and sometimes I think it won’t, but it does (hahaha, not really the second case, like ever).

This is a very good question!

It sounds like it’s mapped to the terrain with the hotbox staying at whatever single plane the center is at. They probably just need to create an actual hotbox that goes above and below the center point a few units.

its anyoing as hell. Please fix this anet. #5 is not working 80% of the time for me.

Having your target just run straight through the crippling shots and completely out of range of the ward is annoying as hell. How did this get past all the betas? Wasn’t DH like the first elite spec?

What Ghosti says nails the issue: There are seemingly randomly distributed (or at least not ideally distributed) hitboxes on Hunter’s Ward.

You have to actually strike someone with one of the falling arrows for them to get hit by cripple I think. This is a pretty unreliable method of applying cripple, and I think the following would be a good fix:

The first arrow to land in the target zone should strike the center. It should create a shockwave (the size of the aoe) which applies cripple and does a small amount of damage. Afterwards, all falling arrows can deal the same damage and apply cripple if foes get by them (this way, it’s sort of like meteor barrage, so it’s not 100% punishing). Finally, the skill should end like it currently does at the moment by applying wards to all inside the aoe on the final hit.